“Back in the day of women’s liberation, we felt that we could not claim success till all women were liberated from oppression. What we wanted was the end of patriarchal capitalism.”— Gail Dines, counterpunch.orgTagged: Liberation, Patriarchy, Capitalism
“The buzz word in popular feminism today is empowerment. When I became a feminist many years ago, the word we used was liberation. Unlike empowerment, liberation is a collective concept which means that even if my life is all rosy and ‘empowered,’ it doesn’t mean shit for those women who are doing lo…”— Gail Dines, counterpunch.orgTagged: Liberation, feminism, empowerment, Social Class